A Million iPhones

In the US, I predict that iPod Touch will reduce sales of iPhone. The former kills the "switch to AT&T for iPhone" market. Given the above choice, many people will avoid the poorly rated AT&T.

The iPhone is a benchmark product for Apple and it will lead the way for future devices and application development. I agree with earlier comments that AT&T is a drag on the iPhone. How much it is hurting sales is hard to say, but is the single biggest issue with product and could potentially hold back sales if ATT does not improve its service, data rate and pricing schemes.

What's missing from the discussion over iPhones is the basic premise of the device: 100% of the device is the screen AND 100% of the device is the interface. Multi-touch, the same technology behind M-soft's (I hate to say it) cool Surface, is what puts the iPhone miles ahead of any other smart phone.

Read this Alertbox article from 2000 in which Jacob Neilsen predicts that this design will succeed where others fail. It's true that Blackberry's are widely accepted, although I wonder if any where near as many individuals would have bought them on their own. Most are bought by enterprises.

Yet another breakthrough product from a truly innovative company.

What?!? No "a" tags? And your own "p" tags aren't even rendering in the preview? C'mon, BW, you can do better than that. Here's that link. Scroll down to the 2007 update mid-page.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000917.html

How does 1 million units in two months compare to Treo and Blackberry? I know the cell phone industry is expecting to sell more than one billion phones this year...